Mexican indigenous community, rape punished by two crates of beer

As told 3

“the result is what the result is that because this is part of their tradition or whatever that you rape eight-year-old girl and you are punished by having to buy two crates of beer”
44:11 Rage, Rebellion, New Power2016-10-27 · 1:37:42

“the punishment was two... twelve bottles a pack of cans of beer and the feminists exploded... sorry, this is our old justice, this is our traditional way of life”
54:19 A Plea for Bureaucratic Socialism2017-06-28 · 2:16:05

“A guy raped his best friend's daughter...the council decided that the punishment should be that this guy should buy to the father of the raped girl a big package of bottles of beer.”
1:51:21 For a Left that Dares Speak its Name2019-10-09 · 1:55:27

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

authentic eurocentrism as the only anti-eurocentrism ×1 way of life ×1 fighting universality ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Gerhard Schröder1 Axel Honneth1 Georgi Dimitrov1 Isaac Deutscher1 Ralph Peters1 Nikki Johnson-Huston1 Oskar Lafontaine1 Edward Bond1

alongside works

Idee des Sozialismus (The Idea of Socialism)1 How Will Capitalism End?1 Before the Law (Kafka parable)1 La Vraie Vie1 Wall Street1 Mourning Sickness1 M. Butterfly1 The Lives of Others1

Told together with

13% Stalin's dialectical synthesis on money in communism 2 shared talks 8% Native Americans prefer 'Indians' 2 shared talks 7% V for Vendetta morning after 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

44:11 Rage, Rebellion, New Power2016-10-27 · 1:37:42

In a remote Oaxacan community under the Usos y Costumbres system, a pastor who raped an eight-year-old was fined two crates of beer; feminist groups protested but local tradition was invoked as protection., illustrating limits of local traditions,qualified eurocentrism,multiculturalism and injustice

54:19 A Plea for Bureaucratic Socialism2017-06-28 · 2:16:05

In a small Mexican city, indigenous elders sentenced a man who raped a twelve-year-old girl to pay the girl's father twelve bottles of beer and a pack of cans, feminists exploded, the judges defended traditional justice. Žižek uses this to illustrate the collision between particular 'ways of life' and universal rights., illustrating way of life,fighting universality,jouissance and community

1:51:21 For a Left that Dares Speak its Name2019-10-09 · 1:55:27

A Mexican town using indigenous elder councils to adjudicate crimes sentenced a rapist to give the victim's father a package of beer, defending it as traditional custom. Feminists' outrage collided with indigenous community autonomy, illustrating genuine irresolvable conflict between feminist and multiculturalist claims., illustrating tensions between emancipatory struggles,limits of identity politics